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...Avoid overfatigue and malnutrition...
...Avoid synthetic morale-builders like alcohol, fatalism or "forgetting...
People who make quick, obvious answers and pass on to the next card are apt to be "conformist" types, anxious to be popular and avoid trouble. Those who see each blot as several different pictures are likely to have active and vivid emotions, while those who see shapes only in small details are often repressed...
Originator of the School of Humanities was English Professor John Wendell Dodds, younger brother of Princeton's President Harold Dodds. Pondering Stanford's lack of a liberal arts school, Professor Dodds dreamed up one which would avoid the failings of most liberal arts colleges: i.e., "a smattering of subjects . . . a lack of cross-fertilization of ideas...
...Italy's food grew scarce, down went Italian morale. Servants whose sons were frozen to death in the Greek campaign still worked in swank resorts, saw profiteering contractors avoid Government taxes by giving weekend trinkets to pinchable blondes. Old families were being ruined by gambling debts. Married couples rowed over trifles. The black market's tentacles reached into the top of the Fascist hierarchy, despite fulminations against racketeers and "slackers" by Publisher Roberto Farinacci. Thousands of Romans, terrified by accounts of R.A.F. bombings in Naples, took their bambini into Vatican City, where they crowded together...